Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 274: Listen and Learn -- UCC Expectation Damages (Contracts)
JONES DAY TALKS®: UCC Proposed Amendments Address Crypto and Other Digital Assets
Podcast: DeFi and Digital Assets: What do the UCC Amendments Mean for Business Transactions? [More with McGlinchey, Ep. 46]
Tokenization of IP Rights and NFTs in Commercial Finance [More with McGlinchey, Ep. 32]
Advancing Agriculture: Security Interests and Article 9 Challenges (Part 1)
Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 267: Listen and Learn -- UCC 2-207 ("The Battle of the Forms")
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 98: Listen and Learn -- The "Battle of the Forms" under UCC 2-207
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 71: Tackling an MEE Contracts Essay Question
Making Cents of Your Cash Management Agreements
On May 14, Outfox Hospitality LLC, the parent company of the retail chain Foxtrot Market, along with its affiliates, filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection in the Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware, with the...more
A seller of goods may gain priority over other creditors, and enhanced prospects for payment, by taking and perfecting a purchase money security interest (PMSI) in the goods sold to a customer. This article will explain what...more
In Worthy Lending LLC v. New Style Contractors. Inc., the New York Court of Appeals held that a security interest includes a lender’s right to force the borrower’s account debtors to remit payments directly to the lender,...more
Zero tolerance continues to be the name of the game in drafting Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) financing statements. While in some states, minor mistakes in UCC financing statements may be forgiven, in at least Florida, no...more
While things worked out for vendors who did not file a UCC-1 in the Sports Authority Chapter 11, you may not be so lucky. Never assume that it is not necessary to properly perfect a consignment arrangement by filing a...more
You just heard a rumor that your largest retail customer is in financial distress and may file for bankruptcy. After a moment of panic, you review your consignment agreement with the retailer (this assumes that you have a...more
In this series, we look at how various payment rights are treated in bankruptcy. A summary like this could not possibly address every right that might arise in any given bankruptcy case. We have omitted several of the...more
Lenders should view as cautionary tales two recently handed down decisions regarding UCC-1 financing statements and the perfection of security interests. On December 20, 2019, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of...more
Last October we highlighted an important ruling issued in September 2019 by the Seventh Circuit in the bankruptcy proceeding of In re I80 Equipment, LLC. The Circuit Court in that case reversed a decision from the lower...more
A recent decision from the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware has a significant impact on both lenders and consignors in retail bankruptcy cases. On April 12, 2019, Judge Mary F. Walrath issued an...more
It always amazes me when, after more than a half-century of Uniform Commercial Code (“UCC”) jurisprudence, an issue one thinks would arise quite commonly appears never to have been decided in a reported case. Such an issue...more
Manufacturers encounter financing statements in many contexts – as a borrower, as a supplier of goods sold on credit, as a seller in a leveraged acquisition, as a seller of equipment where financing is provided to the buyer...more
Can another vain attempt to mitigate a $1.5 billion mistake provide the occasion for a thorough review of the doctrine of earmarking? It did for Southern District Bankruptcy Judge Martin Glenn in the long tail on the General...more
On May 8, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Missouri in In re 8760 Service Group held that a creditor had a first-priority interest in certain collateral of a debtor, before a subsequent creditor, despite...more
The Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware recently held in In re Woodbridge Group of Companies, LLC that while Rule 3001 of the Bankruptcy Code provides a mechanism for transfers of claims, Rule 3001 is not a...more
The June 20, 2018 decision by the Delaware Bankruptcy Court in Woodbridge Group of Companies, LLC should prompt those involved in claims trading to reassess transactions where the underlying documents have anti-assignment...more
Section 503(b)(9) of the Bankruptcy Code (11 U.S.C. §503(b)(9)) provides a special administrative priority claim for someone that supplies goods to a debtor in the 20 day period before the bankruptcy filing, but is unpaid as...more
Amidst a surge in retail bankruptcies, two recent decisions construing section 503(b)(9) of the Bankruptcy Code directly limit suppliers’ ability to seek administrative claims for goods shipped to a debtor in the period...more
Blank Rome Partner Ira Herman authored “Anticipating and Managing Bankruptcy Risk,” a series of articles prepared for the Financial Restructuring & Bankruptcy module of Lexis Practice Advisor, a comprehensive practical...more
When a debtor defaults on a loan secured by personal property, the secured lender has several options for repayment. One option is to sell the collateral securing the debt pursuant to Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code...more